Business Media

announcement

The Base64 Media panel joins the Business Suite for Grafana and with that gets an elevated name. Now, the same amazing open source plugin is called the Business Media panel.

The Base64 Image/PDF panel now is called the Business Media panel.

The Business Media panel is a Grafana plugin that renders PNG, JPG, GIF, MP4, WEBM, MP3, OGG, and PDF files encoded in the base64 format.

Requirements

The Business Media panel version requirements for Grafana are as follows:

• Business Media panel 6.X requires Grafana 10 or Grafana 11.
• Business Media panel 5.X requires Grafana 10 or Grafana 11.
• Base64 Image/PDF panel 4.X requires Grafana 9 or Grafana 10.
• Base64 Image/PDF panel 3.X requires Grafana 8.5 or Grafana 9.
• Base64 Image/PDF panel 2.X requires Grafana 8.
• Base64 Image/PDF panel 1.X requires Grafana 7.1.

Getting Started

The Business Media panel can be installed from the Grafana Plugins catalog or using the Grafana command line tool.

For the latter, please use the following command.

grafana cli plugins install volkovlabs-image-panel

Highlights

• The returned value can include base64 encoded content with or without a specified definition. The formats for the definition can look like data:image/jpg;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT or data:application/pdf;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT.
• The file type is automatically determined based on the first base64 symbol if no definition is provided.
• If the data source returns more than one field of the string type, you can select the Field Name in the panel's display options.
• You can fit image dimensions to the panel size, keep the original values, or adjust dimensions based on the manually supplied values.
• Allows adding a URL with a title to navigate to other dashboards when clicking the image. URL supports dashboard variables.
• Support for MP4 and WEBM video files with the definitions (data:video/mp4;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT and data:video/webm;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT)
• Support for MP3 and OGG audio files with the efinitions (data:audio/mp3;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT and data:audio/ogg;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT)
• Provides a toolbar to download, zoom, and navigate between multiple images.

How to start with the Business Media panel.

Tutorial

In this tutorial, Daria goes over all plugin options.

You will learn how to display images, video, audio and PDF files on your Grafana dashboard. She demonstrates how to set up the toolbar, URL links, image scaling and other parameters.

Display images and PDF on Grafana using Business Media panel.

Documentation

Section	Description
Supported formats	Explains what formats are supported and how to display media files.
Options	Describes all plugin options
Features	Demonstrates panel capabilities.
Release Notes	Stay up to date with the latest features and updates.

License

Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.

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